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the traverse by Dickie, Dick and Sheffield, described in another 

 chapter, was initiated. 



FURTHER EXPLORATIONS 



From a brief reference in the report of Warden J. F. Cherry, 1 

 it appears that Dickie was out prospecting in the Peninsula in 

 1909, but no account of this trip has come under my notice. 



In 1910, DICKIE, WITH DICK AND SHEFFIELD, made the extensive 

 tour in the MC!LWRAITH RANGE AND LOCKHART VALLEY which 

 is the subject of another chapter. 



From a letter written by James Dick on 26th May, 1913, I 

 gathered that Dickie at that date was " OUT BEYOND PLUTOVILLE." 



In February, 1914, he was working on the Annan Tinfield. 



On i yth April, 1918, with JAMES HARE, of Croydon, he set out 

 from Richmond, on the Flinders River, with the intention of 

 revisiting a mineral area which he had discovered some years 

 previously, " 300 miles North of Cooktown." After having passed 

 the Woolgar Goldfield, they got separated and lost, when out in 

 different directions in search of water. (SEE MAPS P AND R.) 

 Dickie reached a Chinaman's hut on the Gilbert River after two 

 days' wandering without food. Hare found his way to Gledswood 

 Station at the head of the Norman. 



Dickie died in March, 1920. 



1 Annual Report, Department of Mines, for 1909, p. 58. 



2 That would be about the head of the Jardine River. It is more likely that the two 

 old prospectors were not " giving away " their objective. 



